Tuesday, November 23, 2010

SOLVED PROBLEMS #1 - WINDOWS 7 AERO ISSUE

HI PEOPLE I AM CHANGING MY TRACK TO SOMETHING WHICH WILL BE VERY USEFUL TO ALL AND TO WHICH I AM REALLY GOOD AT...

PROLOGUE-
i have bought a new graphics card asus eah hd5670 and installed it into my computer motherboard.
everything went ok till i discovered windows aero was not turning on
i went on countless tools online including how to force on windows aero.... nothing did really work in my case.

THE first TRIAL
1. i searched my entire registry for a folder called DWM (desktop windows display manager) & found none
2. i tried to do add some values into registry thinking that it will be helpful, but actually it worsened the problem
END --- deleted all newly added folders in registry and closed it down, had the problem solved (which i created!)
Verdict- there is no dwm folder in registry for Win7 its only useful for win vista

THE Second TRIAL
1. as per think digit user mohiuddin i tried uninstalling my current version of ATI and reinstalled with ATI catalyst HOTFIX V.10.10e
2. was not helpfull but he had a point,
3. then a singh commented about uninstalling everything by clean sweep method.( however he didn't tell how to do a clean sweep.)

THE Victorious TRIAL
TODAY MORNING I woke UP WITH A NEW IDEA ...
I BOOTED UP MY COMPUTER AND
1. ON THE DESKTOP SCREEN I CHANGED THE RESOLUTION TO THE LOWEST . (IN MY CASE IT WAS (800*600)
2. Then i went to control panel and uninstalled entire ati catalyst bundle with application profiles (virtually get rid of anything that says ati catalyst in your uninstaller window ) i think thats what asingh wanted to say.
it will blink and flash the screen for sometime.(step 1 is a must ) Now you will find your aero has returned
if not wait
3. now right click on your my computer icon at desktop and select properties, then select device manager ok now go an select display adapters from the list if your graphics card alone is shown there right click and uninstall it . if its shown along with some other stuff ....(in my case there was a PSP display driver), which i disabled it by right clicking and selcting disable .
Now do a hardware scan for new devices within the device manager screen. Windows will install drivers for you graphics card. Now you are good to go your aero will be running
however if you experience problem with gaming i advice you to download and install 10.11 or 10.10 e hotfix form amd ati website.
during installation please select custom and remove anything clled amd gamer osd or so

(you only need ati catalyst control center and wm9 and playback and atmost the ati driver)

thats it enjoy gaming

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